Showing posts with label silver age of comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silver age of comics. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2026

ABOMINABLE ACT

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 Re: ACT's successful campaign against cartoon superheroes in the late 1960a-- ____________ ACT might be considered the stepchild of W(e...
Friday, October 10, 2025

AMAZON ATROPHY

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 Yesterday I decided to do a deep dive into a section of the shallow pool known as "Robert Kanigher's WONDER WOMAN." I didn...
Friday, September 12, 2025

NULL-MYTHS: ANGEL AND THE APE VOLUME ONE (1968-69)

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  The best thing about the original run of DC's ANGEL AND THE APE -- lasting just one SHOWCASE issue and six issues of a regular magazin...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

MYTHCOMICS: "DEUS EX MACHINA," ANIMAL MAN #18-26 (1989-90)

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     The latter half of Grant Morrison's run on ANIMAL MAN wasn't originally given any particular title. However, by whatever contri...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

GUNN SHOTS

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  "Our plot has nothing to do with All-Star Superman, but some of the aesthetics of what Grant wrote and what Frank drew were incredibl...
Monday, July 14, 2025

MYTHCOMICS: "SUPERMAN IN EXCELSIS" (ALL STAR SUPERMAN #1/ 10-12, 2007-08)

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  Even before I saw and reviewed SUPERMAN LEGACY , I'd heard somewhere that James Gunn might have been influenced by Grant Morrison'...
Friday, May 17, 2024

MYTHCOMICS: "THE CURSE OF THE SUPERBOY MUMMY" (SUPERBOY #123, 1965)

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By 1965, many of the Mort Weisinger-edited comics of the SUPERMAN line had gone beyond the fustiness of their Golden Age precursors. If one ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

NEAR MYTHS: "THE CREEPING CREATURES OF STEEL" (HOUSE OF SECRETS #23, 1959)

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What's great about myth-hunting is that how even the lesser near-myths show up in the most unexpected places.  Though a lot of Silver Ag...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

THE EXCELLENT SEEDS OF HIS OWN DESTRUCTION

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For once, I got permission from a forum-poster, one DoctorHermes428, to reprint here a post from CHFB that sparked my current essay. The con...